Frederick douglass and Malcolm X shared many of the same qualities in their writing. Even though they both lacked rights for different reasons, they were both still African American men having to learn to read and write around their lack of rights. When Malcolm X was in the Charlestown prison. He soon learned a Dictionary was basically an encyclopedia, with are the sentences and definitions. Frederick Douglass had learned …show more content…
Mortimer J. Alder is very intelligent when it comes to the art of reading and writing. You really learn a lot about yourself and if you are really a reader or an imposture. The more you analyze it the more you realize how many people really aren't that good of writers. A quote I loved from his passage “How to Mark a Book,” is this “Having a fine library does not prove that its owner has a mind enriched by books; it proves nothing more than that he, his father, or his wife, was rich enough to buy them.” In all reality it doesn't matter how many books you own it only matters about the quality in which you read